Senegal

If you were ever to google “Senegal” or even do street view and just zoom into the people, they usually wear garments that have a lot of different colors. That's my first palette inspiration.

Linda Dounia, Linda Dounia on Memory Machines

And in Senegal there is this cosmology that centers around five sacred trees in the Serer community, and the trees are tied to their rituals, their burial, their ancestry and ideas of memory of place.

Regina Harsanyi, Frieze Week New York: Rhizome, MoMI, Karyn Nakamura